O'Reilly Automotive Inc (ORLY): Today's Featured Retail Laggard

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O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY) pushed the Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Retail laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, O'Reilly Automotive fell $1.55 (-1.7%) to $88.17 on light volume. Throughout the day, 859,772 shares of O'Reilly Automotive exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $87.85-$90.23 after having opened the day at $89.22 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $89.72. Other companies within the Retail industry that declined today were: Ann (ANN), down 4.8%, Liquidity Service (LQDT), down 4.3%, E-Commerce China Dangdang (DANG), down 4.1%, and Alon Holdings Blue Square - Israel (BSI), down 3.9%.

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O'Reilly Automotive, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the retail of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment, and accessories in the United States. O'Reilly Automotive has a market cap of $10.15 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.2, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 1% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate O'Reilly Automotive a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates O'Reilly Automotive as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

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On the positive front, Christopher & Banks Corporation (CBK), up 12.9%, Stage Stores (SSI), up 4.5%, Susser Holdings Corporation (SUSS), up 4.5%, and Gaiam Inc. Class A (GAIA), up 4.4%, were all gainers within the retail industry with Macy's (M) being today's featured retail industry leader.

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